Uutils

The Uutils project reimplements ubiquitous command line utilities in memory-safe Rust.

Coreutils

Introduction

Uutils Coreutils is a cross-platform memory-safe reimplementation of GNU Coreutils in Rust

While all programs have been implemented, some options might be missing or different behavior might be experienced

For details, see Uutils Coreutils - GNU Coreutils Test Coverage

Though the main goal of the project is compatibility, Uutils Coreutils supports a few features that are not supported by GNU Coreutils

For details, see Uutils Coreutils - Extensions

Nixpkgs - uutils-coreutils

If you want a prefixed package for some reason, use uutils-coreutils instead

Findutils

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Uutils Findutils is a cross-platform memory-safe reimplementation of GNU findutils: xargs, find, locate and updatedb

It aims to be a drop-in replacement of the original GNU findutils commands

Nixpkgs - uutils-findutils

Diffutils

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Uutils Diffutils is is a cross-platform memory-safe reimplementation of GNU findutils: diff, cmp, diff3 and sdiff

It aims to be a drop-in replacement of the original GNU diffutils commands

Nixpkgs - uutils-diffutils

Installation

To use uutils as your system coreutils, just add it to PATH with high priority.

❄︎ /etc/nixos/configuration.nix

{ pkgs, ... }: {
  environment.systemPackages = [ 
    (lib.hiPrio pkgs.uutils-coreutils-noprefix)
    (lib.hiPrio pkgs.uutils-diffutils)
    (lib.hiPrio pkgs.uutils-findutils)
  ];
}

Attempting to replace all with a hacky replaceDependencies solution is not recommended or will be supported.